AcProMS Academic project management system

Abstract

The quest for quality in education highlights the role of planning and management. Hence educational programs, like Under-graduate and Master, may benefit from implementation of an academic project management system. In order to achieve that, it is reasonable to form a common framework that provides a basic structure, which would be useful for acquiring data and producing statistics to support the program’s planning and management. The proposed system intends to be the framework that implements this basic structure. Moreover the management of various activities related to academic projects (UG Final year Project and MS Thesis) is carried out manually. There is no Information System available that can manage and keep record of related activities, deadlines/milestones and deliverables associated with these projects. Moreover, the communication and collaboration between the various stakeholders is difficult. Our Project presents a complete web system that can be applied to support the educational planning and management demands of undergraduate and postgraduate final year projects and theses. Supervisors will upload their projects with details. They will also mention the innovation level, and level of difficulty. They will also include description of the project, required deliverables, and skills (mathematical, programing etc.) and the required tool(s)/tech(s). Allocation of projects can be based on some algorithm or first-come-first serve basis in-case more than one groups apply for a specific project. Students (their groups) will be given choices for more than one project. Out of these choices, a project will be allocated to them. Once a project is assigned, a respective workspace will be created for the syndicates where they can communicate and collaborate with other group members and the supervisor.